I'm sorry you were traumatized...{{{Big Bosie HUGS, Elanor}}} but if it's any comfort to you, the book it is based on is MUCH darker. Hard to believe that, but it's true. I wish I coulf go into detail, but I'd only give you the creeps. Let's just say that it shows, in stomach-churning detail, what *really* happens when Man enters the Forest. Disney hinted at this in his cartoon, but the book goes much further. What Uncle Walt preferred to keep "offscreen" was depicted there.

Have you read Watership Down? Not seen the movie, but read Richard Adams's novel. Remember Captain Holly telling the story of what happened to the rabbits' origional home warren? That begins to evoke it a liitle.

It's funny...that scene..Bambi' mother's death (and I can tell you haven't seen the film since; she didnt die in the forest fire; she died much earler in the film, shot by hunters--but she dies "off-camera" so to speak, and that adds to the effectiveness.) didn't affect me until i got older. the silence of the aftermath (no music) along with the beauty of the sftly falling snow....Disney might not have been a sadist, but he certainly a genus:)